"Really coming?!" Kermilla was still standing on the roof just like yesterday, looking at the billowing smoke and dust rising in the distance on the mountain, and said to herself: "How did it come so fast?!"
No one answered him. The difference from yesterday was that Link was no longer with him. Now there was no one else in the whole town except him. All the soldiers followed Link and ran to the original place on the mountain early in the morning.
They hid in the place they had observed and carried out the second step of their plan.
Although Link's plan scared away the bandits that day, Link still expected that these bandits would come back early.
When Kermilla thought about it, she couldn't help but admire Link even more. This guy usually seemed playful and playful, but at this important moment, he seemed to have completely changed.
It's like a human being, I can't understand it, I really can't understand it.
Perhaps this is the genius that Master Calvin mentioned!
However, Kermilla was still a little worried. After all, it turned out that Link estimated that these bandits would have to wait until this afternoon to come back to their senses after yesterday's fright and come back. Now they
He arrived a full half a day earlier than Link estimated.
"It's okay!" Kermilla took a deep breath: "As long as you follow the plan arranged by Link, you will definitely be able to scare them away again! But Link's part of the plan is more dangerous than himself.
"
Kermilla clenched the hilt of the sword: "Link, nothing can happen to you, you still owe me a barbecue mountain beast!"
"Ouch!" Link couldn't help but sneeze quietly, but luckily it didn't make too much noise. He muttered: "It must be the bad boy Kemilla who is cursing me again."
When they arranged their respective plans last night, Kemilla rushed to change the division of labor with him and let him lead these soldiers. However, Kemilla finally understood that she was more suitable for this role than him, so she did not insist on it anymore.
Of course, this big man who was led astray by his mentor Calvin still took the opportunity to blackmail him into a whole roasted mountain beast.
"Hey, this guy." Link smiled, but soon calmed down and focused his attention on what was in front of him, because he had already heard the faint sound of horse hooves.
They are now hiding in the mountains and forests. They are not standing at a high place like Kermilla, so their vision is not as far away as him. On the contrary, they found out later than Kermilla that the bandits were coming again.
"It's coming! It's really coming! It's actually here so early!" Unlike Kermilla's worried mood, the soldiers following Link now looked very excited.
Yesterday's victory had already made these soldiers who had experienced the taste of victory for the first time forget their fear. Now they all have more confidence in the method that Link Knight came up with than Link himself. Now if Link says a word, they will simply
Just dare to go up the mountain and let the bandits know how powerful they are.
The bandits were getting closer, and through their hiding place, Link and the others could gradually clearly see the appearance of the group of bandits rushing towards them.
"It's really here. Knight Link's guess is so accurate!" The soldiers behind him whispered to each other. They were still some distance away from the road where the bandits were running. They were not afraid of those bandits even if they spoke in such a low voice.
They will hear it.
The one who reacted differently from the soldiers was Link, who frowned slightly.
"It seems a little too fast..."
He whispered in his mouth and stared straight ahead.
Knowing that this group of bandits will attack again is of course not a guess, but a conclusion reached by Knight Link after a comprehensive analysis of the bandits' records he heard from the retreating soldiers.
The two imperial coalition forces that went up the mountain this time amounted to 70,000 to 80,000 people. These bandits were able to use such a small number of people to bring the two imperial coalition forces into the current situation. Although there were also internal reasons for the coalition forces.
The bandits took advantage of the fact that they were familiar with the terrain, but this was still an extremely difficult task.
Link has never fought in a war, but he has followed his little dad since he was a child, using his trap skills to set traps to catch those monsters in the foggy night forest. He has played with it countless times since he was a child, so he
Of course, I understand that it seems like it only took a few days for those bandits to turn such a powerful imperial coalition into what it is now. It is not a complicated matter, but in fact every link takes a lot of time.
A lot of thought goes into the design, but as long as any subtle link is not taken into consideration, things will probably end up with completely different results than now.
This is what Link Knight learned from experience after his buttocks were burned countless times by fireballs from flaming beasts in the foggy night forest.
Therefore, Link concluded early on that there must be a truly intelligent person among the group of bandits on the mountain. His plans already had many flaws. In the atmosphere like yesterday, it was not difficult to frighten the bandits immediately.
, but when we go back and wait for the bandit to calm down, he will find something wrong here, and they will get more people to take a look at it no matter what.
However, in Link's original plan, even if the bandit's brain discovered something was wrong that night after returning and raised questions, most of the guys who came to attack the town yesterday were frightened.
It will take a while to convince them, and when they finally come to a conclusion, they can gather all the troops and run here again. It will have to be the afternoon anyway. Then scare them and the day will pass.
Got it.
Tomorrow will be the third day. Once we get through it, the reinforcements from Salenberg should have arrived by then, but I didn't expect these guys to actually come over so early in the morning.
"This can only mean one thing." Link touched his chin that had not yet grown a beard: "It seems that the wise man among the bandits has a high status and absolute influence among this group of bandits.
, if things go wrong, he might even be the leader of this group of bandits!"
Only in this way can these bandits who were frightened yesterday be reorganized in such a short period of time and driven to attack the town again.
"This is a bit difficult!" Link still stared at the group of bandits in front of him who were getting closer: "I don't know their leader..."
Suddenly, as if he was sensing something, his eyes crossed the large group of people and focused on a person who was following behind the large group of people unhurriedly.
That was indeed a guy dressed very strangely. In such a hot weather, he actually had his head wrapped in black clothes, with only a pair of eyes exposed. He was riding on a horse, unlike the topless ones in front of him.
The robbers and big men on their backs look extremely out of place.
He rode the horse in a leisurely manner. Compared with the big bandits who were galloping with their teeth and cleft lips, he seemed to be very leisurely. However, he followed the bandits while keeping a certain distance.
, it was not pulled away at all, which is indeed very strange.
However, in such a large battle with hundreds of people rushing towards him with murderous intent, such a guy is very weird from appearance to action, but he is still not conspicuous enough for people to see him at a glance among so many people.
To the point where, at least among the soldiers behind Link, no one noticed the existence of this alien.
Except Link!
The reason that made Link focus all his attention on this guy was not because of his weird dress and behavior, but because of a feeling, a very strong and dangerous feeling!
This is an intuition he developed after facing countless ferocious beasts in the foggy night forest since he was a child. It has also been strengthened by mentor Calvin's almost perverted training over the past few years. It is now even sharper than before.
A terrible point.
The sound of horse hooves became louder, and the bandits, one by one, passed by at a fast pace on the road next to where Link and the others were hiding. The snoring of the horses could be heard clearly.
The soldiers behind Link had long lost their original excitement. All of them had serious expressions on their faces and held their breath.
Different from yesterday, this was the first time they felt the feeling of hundreds of horses charging together so closely, the sound of horse hooves that could break people's ears, and the feeling of so many fierce bandits with bloody smells charging together.
The feeling of being able to crush everything in their way made these recruits, who were actually on the battlefield for the first time, feel an unprecedented sense of oppression.
Compared to yesterday's situation of hiding behind and relying solely on traps and strategies to win, this was the first time they felt that they were so close to danger.
As long as Link still puts all his attention on that weirdo!
Although the bandits in front of him had hundreds of men and horses, Link could clearly feel that the weirdo in front of him was more dangerous than the hundreds of bandits.
Unknowingly, Link's hand that gripped the hilt of the sword was sweating slightly, and a strange cold light shone in his eyes as he stared at the weirdo.
If Kermilla were around, she would scream again.
This was the last time they saw the light in Mentor Calvin's eyes.
The strange thing is that the weird man wrapped in black clothes seemed to feel Link's presence when the strange light emitted from Link's eyes. He paused and reined in his horse slightly.
, turned his head and looked in Link's direction.
Link quickly closed his eyes and hid behind the shadow of the big tree, his heart beating wildly.
This weirdo's sensory sensitivity seems to be not much worse than him.
What surprised Link the most was that based on his last impression, that weird guy's eyes seemed to be green!
"ah!"
"Xiaojiu?! Fourth child?!"
"Damn! This is..."
At this time, the group of bandits had arrived at the location planned by Link. One or two of them were frightened by the situation in front of them. They reined in their horses and screamed.
The conspicuous checkpoint and the flags are still there, but there are no soldiers patrolling below. Instead, the bandits who were stepped on those mechanisms the day before and were captured by Link and the soldiers were tied up.
He was tied to the big tree around the checkpoint, and his mouth was still tightly blocked with some rags. Now when he saw the group of bandits coming, they were struggling one by one and whining.
If they didn't have something stuffed in their mouths now, in addition to shouting for help, they might also tell their fellow bandits not to be afraid. There should not be as many soldiers in this town as they thought. After all, although this night
Since then, Link has ordered these guys to be dragged outside the town early in the morning, without letting them really come into contact with the real situation in the town. However, the soldiers' shouting with joy yesterday still allowed these prisoners to hear more or less.
, and with just a dozen or so people wandering around, these prisoners were a little suspicious.
But now in the eyes of the group of frightened bandits, I always felt that the prisoners were struggling to tell them not to go over, and there were more tragic words such as ambush, so for a while, the leader was lucky enough not to suffer any injuries yesterday.
The injured one-eyed man looked at each other with the few bosses around him, reined in his horse, and almost wanted to turn around and leave.
They were severely frightened by Link yesterday. After returning to their hometown, before they had time to take back their frightened souls, their boss gave them a brutal lecture. Today, they also gave him a scolding.
They were kicked out early in the morning and embarked on this frightening road again.
Although the boss was following them, they managed to muster up some courage, but now that they were so frightened, many people started to feel nervous again.
Especially looking at the town that is almost as quiet as yesterday, these bandits who have experienced yesterday's battle feel that there might be a few beasts appearing on the road from here to the town at any time.
When a clamp or a nail is placed on the ground, my whole body starts to feel wrong.
"Hmph!" The weirdo had been reining in his horse and watching from a distance behind the group of bandits. Now looking at the appearance of the group of guys, he finally snorted softly.
He just snorted lowly, but the group of bandits in front of him, including the one-eyed man, were all shocked as if they had heard something extremely terrifying.
"Damn it," the one-eyed dragon man gritted his teeth, drew out his weapon, and shouted, "Brothers..."
"Are you here to surrender? Are you here to surrender?" Kermilla's loud voice finally came in handy. He slowly walked out of the town and waved to the bandits from a distance:
"Dismount one by one, first go to the first legion on the left side of the town to pay the horses, then follow the guidance to the seventh legion to hand over the weapons, and then go to the sixteenth legion to register the number of people! Come one by one, don't crowd, otherwise you will be tied up
Those guys in the tree are your role models!”
The First Legion... The Seventh Legion... The Sixteenth Legion...
The one-eyed man quickly swallowed the last sentence about charging and felt a chill all over his body.
Looking around in the blink of an eye, the bandits all had the same expression.
Damn, there are so many people here. They have no idea about numbers and they almost can’t count them.
"Brothers!" This time it was Link who whispered: "It's almost time for us to go on stage!"
"Hey, don't you understand?!" Kermilla arrogantly put her hands on her hips and shouted loudly: "Get off your horse quickly, or our archers will fire!"
"Oh, oh", some of the little bandits who were accustomed to obeying orders were startled by Kermilla's tone, and they subconsciously turned over and dismounted according to Kermilla's instructions.
"Idiot!" The weirdo finally couldn't bear it anymore and cursed in an extremely hoarse voice.
The bandits just woke up from a dream, and remembered that they seemed to be here to attack the town, not to surrender, but several of them were already on the verge of falling off their horses.
"No one." That weirdo seemed to hate talking. No matter how complicated the meaning was, he would only express it in the shortest possible sentences: "Go!"
"Yes!" Even though the one-eyed man was clearly scared, he still shouted yes without hesitation.
He drew his weapon and finally yelled out the words he had just finished shouting: "Brothers, charge with me and flatten the town!"
"Peel the town! Level the town!" The hundreds of gangsters picked up their horses and rushed out following the one-eyed man, shouting in unison. At the beginning, some people were hesitant and their shouts were mixed.
They were not uniform, but after shouting a few times, the voices of these tough gangsters, who had been trained in countless battles, no longer had any hesitation at all, and were only filled with murderous intent.
On the trail outside the town, hundreds of horses galloped together, kicking up billows of sand and dust, like a wild beast that wanted to swallow the entire town in its belly.
The weirdo who stayed behind and did not come forward finally showed a little satisfaction in his eyes when he saw this situation.
This looks like a group of horse thieves running rampant on the border between two empires!
His extraordinary feeling made him already confirm that there could never be many soldiers in this small town or even near this forest. Because he did not feel any oppression or danger, he ordered them
The subordinates launched a desperate charge.
He doesn't believe there are any traps on this road, because he is absolutely sure that there are very few people on this continent who can beat him in setting traps!
A trap that even he can't see must not exist!
Five miles...three miles...
As no traps were encountered on the road as they expected, these bandits gradually became more courageous, and those who had deliberately fallen behind gradually moved to the front.
Just kidding, the boss is watching from behind. As long as it’s not too dangerous, why not show off now?
They didn't even have time to untie their companions who were still tied to the trees, and just rushed past them towards the town.
In their eyes, Kermilla standing outside the town was already visible.
Kermilla didn't show any panic at all.
There even seemed to be a faint smile on his face, and he slowly drew out his knight's sword.
Danger!
A strange feeling finally emerged in the boss's mind.
His eyes suddenly lit up, and he stared at Kermilla closely.
But before he could say anything, Kermilla had already waved the big sword in her hand and shouted: "There are really people who are not afraid of death. Shoot for me, archers!"